Social change is an ongoing in most societies...A society that is stagnant often suffers from a social order that is 'too stable'. Without change, a change society cannot make progress or solve social problems such as poverty and extreme inequality" (Primis 181). If society does remain stagnant, then economic success can lead to an apathetic population, and this can lead to repression, and eventually to revolution.

The best way to study and analyze the apathy in society is to look at the voting rates from year to year. By investigating voting, one can see through percentages and numbers precisely how involved people are in politics. When the economy is doing well, as it is today in the United States, voting numbers usually decrease because people become apathetic, and they are less concerned about changes that might affect them. Due to the fact that some people are much better off financially than they ever have, they become less interested in politics and more interested in spending their well-earned money. It is when people begin to suffer economically that they become more involved with politics because they feel that a change in the status quo is necessary for them to escape whatever economic recession they are in.

As Americans, we must do something about voter apathy because not only does voting allow us to be active in the political process, it enables us to fulfill our civic duty and exert our political influence. Contrary to public opinion, every vote makes a difference in this process and it may not seem like it, but if more people began to vote, they would definitely get noticed. Ironically, the last presidential election should have supported the idea of voter significance, yet served to create more apathy because of the post-election mess that occurred. Many people now feel the popular vote did not reign supreme, and that the voting system itself was shown to have more problems than was previously thought.

By "getting the vote out," we voice our opinions on important issues. By participating in the political process, we fulfill our civic duty. By exerting our political power, we shape our government policies. The best way to get involved in our political process is to vote, so people have to get out there, get registered, and go vote in the next election.

Sometimes people get sick with all the lies and promises that come out of politician's mouths that they become apathetic towards voting. Rather than give one of these politicians who are only seen as "the better of two evils" a vote, they choose not to vote at all. Their frustration with their choices results in them becoming apathetic and in his essay "Toward A Theory of Revolution", Davies says that revolutions "need both a period of rising expectations and a succeedin

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